Proverbs 24:7
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Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
In other translations
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Proverbs 14:6A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Psalm 10:5His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
- Psalm 92:5-65 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.5 How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts! 6 A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
- Proverbs 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
- Isaiah 29:21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
- Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
- Proverbs 31:8-98 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.8 Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
- Amos 5:12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
- Proverbs 15:24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
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